wait a minute here. whats up with the WP today, in their 'assessment'? they claim that the damage was due to 70-ton M1 abrams tanks, then mentions the schools, clinics, water treatment plants and police stations that got the funds for repair. why are we destroying these things in the first place?
U.S. Adopts Aggressive Tactics on Iraqi Fighters (washingtonpost.com): "After the fighting is over, U.S. military officials say, it becomes important to repair the damage -- a door smashed, a wall breached, an irrigation culvert flattened by a 70-ton M1 Abrams tank. Every U.S. brigade commander in Iraq has a 'Commander's Emergency Repair Fund' of $200,000 that is replenished as he spends it. Over the past six weeks of the U.S. offensive, commanders across Iraq dispensed $13 million to rebuild schools, clinics, water treatment plans and police stations, said Army Col. David MacEwen, who helps coordinate the civic works. "